United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 52
Chap. LII.—An Act to authorize the state of Indiana to locate and make a road therein named.
General assembly authorized to locate and make a road from Lake Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis to some convenient point on the Ohio river.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the general assembly of the state of Indiana shall be, and the same are hereby, authorized to locate and make a road from Lake Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis, to some convenient point on the Ohio river, agreeably to the second article of a treaty made and concluded near the mouth of the Mississinowa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, between the commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatamie tribe of Indians; and the said general assembly are hereby authorized to apply the strip of land and the sections of land, by said article ceded to the United States, or the proceeds thereof, to the making of the same; and the said grant shall be at their sole disposal.
Approved, March 2, 1827.